Young Mike Huckabee, as columnist, counseled against dancing

Buzzfeed has made a find — columns written by recent Hope High graduate Mike Huckabee for a Missionary Baptist newsletter targeting young people, titled the RAPture Express.

By then already a preacher and speaker, Huckabee had some opinions about dancing:

“I strongly recommend that Christian teens stay away from dancing, mainly because some people would just not be able to respect a person who attended dances.”

He tried to straddle a bit.

I personally don’t see that much wrong with dances, but at the same time, I can’t find a whole lot of good with them either. I strongly recommend that Christian teens stay away from dancing, mainly because some people would just not be able to respect a person who attended dances. It sure won’t help your Christian life, and the chance of it being affected at all isn’t worth the little bit of pleasure that you might find at a dance. If the person you date won’t respect that opinion in you, then you shouldn’t be dating that person anyway. If your dating partner digs dancing more than he digs you, you haven’t got much of a date.

Huckabee wasn't sure dancing necessarily led to immoral acts, but he was sure it could lead to "temptation."